"Council Chairman Ronnie Lee says the $330 million producers received in ginning cost share payments did help in 2016. But Lee, a speaker at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in Memphis, Tenn., said he is hopeful a new Congress and a new administration will mean the Council will be more successful in winning approval for the oilseed designation in 2017 -- as a bridge to the new farm bill Congress is expected to pass in 2018."http://www.southeastfarmpress.com/cotton/national-cotton-council-looking-ways-help-us-cotton-survive